Category Archives: Canada

NANAIMO, B.C. - An embattled mayor on Vancouver Island is being taken to court by his own city over allegations he leaked confidential information to an employee, while at the same time a group of res...

MONTREAL - More than 37,000 Hydro-Quebec customers were still without electricity as of Wednesday afternoon due to freezing rain that caused ice-covered branches to snap and fall onto power lines. The...

VANCOUVER - Free salt has become a hot commodity in Vancouver as some residents clamour for more than their fair share of a limited supply intended to keep sidewalks safe during an unusually cold wint...

OTTAWA - It was a construction crew working on a hospital expansion that first came across human remains in 2010 near the pastoral French town of Vendin-le-Vieil - remains that would later prove to be...

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has been fined $10,000 by Alberta’s professional engineering society - the maximum allowed - following an investigation into an accident at an oilsands site that ...

REGINA – The Saskatchewan government says it will consolidate the province’s 12 health regions into one provincial health authority and the overhaul should take place this fall. Health Min...

EDMONTON - A judge is to deliver sentencing later this month - anywhere from time served to life in prison - for a man convicted of killing two Alberta seniors who disappeared on a camping trip. Travi...

TORONTO - Relocating a nuclear-waste bunker from its currently proposed site on Lake Huron would cost billions of dollars, take decades to execute, and increase health and environmental risks, accordi...

MONTREAL - Canada needs to reduce the number of immigrants and refugees it accepts in order to better integrate them, Conservative leadership hopeful Steven Blaney said Wednesday. The Quebec MP said t...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland judge has certified a class action lawsuit against the Atlantic Lottery Corporation that alleges VLT line games are designed to deceive players. The class actio...